March @ Motherhood Uncensored
Hi everyone,
Spring is finally here! Yes the bulbs are lovely but can they compare to the joy of laundry drying *outside*?!
What’s coming up at Motherhood Uncensored?
We’re full steam ahead with our book publication. It’s now available for pre-order at various places like Waterstones, Foyles, Barnes and Noble, Amazon. Kindle version here.
If you have a friendly local bookshop then do pop in and see if they would like to stock it too! Remember the proceeds will be shared with Make Birth Better and PND Awareness and Support (Pandas foundation).
We’d also love to see you at one of the free launch events planned throughout March. You can book through Eventbrite for Glasgow, Manchester (sold out!) and London and contact info@literatiarts.com to join the Leicester event.
Tickets are selling out fast so do book if you’re planning to join!
And ICYMI…
We have published a few more pieces and interviews here and at motherhood-uncensored.org
Most recently I interviewed author
about her fantastic book out today: Motherdom.Motherdom, with Alex Bollen
Alex Bollen is a researcher with over twenty years of experience, including as a former director of the research agency Ipsos MORI. She is a Postnatal Practitioner with the NCT, the UK’s largest parenting charity, and has been running postnatal groups for new mothers in South West London for over a decade. She is the mother of two children.
I also interviewed Dr Kirsty Budds an academic psychologist at Leeds Beckett University about ‘intensive mothering’ and how these expectations affect and limit women’s choices.
Intensive mothering and women's choices
Dr Kirsty Budds is a critical health psychologist and qualitative researcher. She is a Chartered Psychologist and member of the BPS Division of Health Psychology. Her key research interests are in the topics of women's reproductive health and parenting. She is a mother of two young boys.
And we’ve got some fantastic poetry from Rachel Burrows about the guilt-inducing thoughts we can have wishing for breaks from our children, and the relief of realising that we’re not alone in having those thoughts.
Have you got a story to share?
We are always looking for fresh thinking on motherhood. We're open to poetry and prose, from new and published authors. Our main criteria for deciding whether to publish something is:
​Is this work tackling an aspect of motherhood that we usually brush under the carpet?
That could involve discussing choices and dilemmas about whether to have children, fertility, loss, disappointment, regret, ambivalence, and physical and mental health. It could involve unpacking the pressure to be a certain kind of mother, or a discussion of how your upbringing had an impact on how you relate to motherhood. It could involve challenging the misogyny you find yourself surrounded by, or simply calling BS on an array of mothering nonsense.
If you think you might be interested, check out our submissions guidelines: https://www.motherhood-uncensored.org/submissions
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